I received an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

So this was definitely a thing. It felt like a “kill your gays” type of book. Because literally the villain of the book is killing her ex lovers because of internalized homophobia. And could we not? That’s just one thing I don’t enjoy reading in my books because it’s so pervasive in movies and tv and still sometimes in books. I just want the kill your gays trope to die for a while before we start killing everyone off again it’s one thing when it’s a memoir but another for a book like this.

It was a murder/mystery type book that had it been straight people it most certainly would have been borderline cozy mystery (minus the fact that sex happened because that’s the rule in cozy mysteries is no sex) but amateur sleuth definitely. If that’s not your type of story I don’t advise this book. If you don’t like animal deaths I don’t advise this book either.

This was a follow up book to a book I didn’t read but overall, it stood up well on it’s own. Like I didn’t even realize it was a sequel until after I finished. Which is always nice.